“I’m supposedly the jerk from California. Yet, I’m born and raised here in this state, spent my last 12 years living where you grew up,” Hovde said. “I’m a [University of Wisconsin] grad, you’re not.” Baldwin responded that she was. “Law school, not undergrad,” Hovde shot back.
Michael Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said her direct appeals to working-class voters may not have made much of a difference given the national political climate.
Students made their way to Memorial Union, Lowell Hall and other campus polling locations between classes to cast their vote.
Ballots cast at University of Wisconsin-Madison early voting locations including Memorial Union, Union South and Health Sciences Learning Center comprised nearly one out of every five in-person votes from Oct. 22 to Nov. 1 amid record citywide early vote turnout.
November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions and histories of the Native American peoples, according to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Scholarship caps are going away. Roster limits are coming. The University of Wisconsin athletic department has work to do in reducing its athlete count because of it.
After working for a number of technical firms as a technical writer and editor in the Madison area, she taught herself web design and became the webmaster for the UW-Madison College of Engineering.
Amy had a fulfilling and impactful career, most recently with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health as the Division Administrator for Geriatrics and Gerontology. She loved her coworkers and role, often referring to it as her dream job.
ABC News’ Deb Roberts reports from the University of Wisconsin campus where she’s been speaking with young voters.
While visiting a poll location at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gov. Tony Evers was serenaded by students wishing him a happy birthday on Election Day.
Milwaukee’s votes can take longer to count for several reasons, Barry Burden, Director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center, said.
This week’s bye week allows for a turn of focus to No. 1 Oregon coming to town Nov. 16, a game that will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and be televised on NBC. It will be the Badgers’ third consecutive primetime game on NBC.
More than two decades of construction on the Near West Side’s main thoroughfare has finally wrapped up, a process that’s certainly added to commutes but is leaving the area better protected from intense flooding.
“This fall [in precipitation] has been a prime example of flash drought across parts of the U.S.,” Jason Otkin, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote in a NASA Earth Observatory post. “These events can take people by surprise because you can quickly go from being drought-free to having severe drought conditions.”
Column by Jessica Maki, a mass communications Ph.D. student at UW-Madison who earned her master’s at Louisiana State University, and Michael W. Wagner, the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal and professor of journalism and mass communication at UW-Madison.
As you spend time with people close to you, don’t be afraid to lean on them for social support. Research shows that you can literally outsource your negative emotions to those you’re closest to, minimizing their impact. In a groundbreaking study at the University of Wisconsin, researchers put people in MRI machines and threatened to shock them at random. There were three groups of participants: People who were alone. People who held the hand of a stranger. People who held the hand of a loved one.The researchers measured fear activity in each person’s brain, and they found something incredible in the third group. Participants’ brains were much less active. They could literally outsource their fear to their loved ones.
“It can take a few days and sometimes more,” said Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It create “a lot of suspicion and misinformation about what’s happening,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who runs an elections center on campus. “There were a lot of allegations in 2020 about votes being dumped or something happening maliciously in the middle of the night because it did happen in the middle of the night. That’s when election officials finished their work. It’s really just a product of the state law that requires that they can’t start counting until Election Day.”
Barry Burden, Director of the University of Wisconsin’s Elections Research Center, said, “typically 2 to 2 ½ hours after polls close, we start to get a pretty good picture of the state,” but he noted Milwaukee takes longer.”It’s the biggest city, and it has the most ballots, and it also counts absentee ballots at a central location,” Burden said. “That’ll be after midnight, 1 (a.m.) or 2 a.m.”
The committee is eager to turn out young voters and Black voters across the battlegrounds. It is putting up 300 digital kiosks across college campuses that include the University of North Carolina and its affiliated campuses, Michigan State University, Temple University, Marquette University, and the University of Wisconsin.
Founder of the Black Males in Engineering project, Brian A. Burt, is leading research into how Black men are often excluded from science, technology, engineering and mathematics — or STEM — industries. Through BME, Burt hopes to emphasize that Black mens’ journeys throughout STEM need to be aided by many people throughout their lives.
Wisconsin Union will also host Friendsgiving available to all UW-Madison students.
Conservative students sometimes come up to College Democrat’s table to disagree, but they always have a civil conversation, Schanhofer said. UW College Republicans Chair Thomas Pyle said his organization frequently collaborates with College Democrats. “I think we have a great relationship with College Democrats right now,” Pyle said. “… I would love to see more of that in the real political world out there … We don’t need to hate our political opponents.”
Students reported lines of about two hours, and early voters at campus polling locations comprised nearly a fifth of in-person absentee ballots cast in Madison.
Erin Warner is a Badger mom who learned the hard way how difficult the housing market can be to navigate.
Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison’s University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases. It took months to resolve.
While living in Madison, Flo worked for the University of Wisconsin, Madison as an Account Specialist until her retirement.
She worked for many years for the State of Wisconsin and the UW Medical School until her retirement in 2013.
The state Legislature should consider splitting UW-Madison from the rest of the Universities of Wisconsin system, according to a panel of legislators and others making a list of recommendations about the future of the UW system.
UW Hospital, which last month opened the $465 million Eastpark Medical Center on Madison’s Far East Side, netted $79 million from patient care last year. That resulted in an operating margin, or revenue exceeding costs, of 2.9%, down from 4.1% in 2022.
It’s hard to come up with new accomplishments when you’ve won 54 Big Ten men’s cross country championships and six in a row, but the University of Wisconsin found a way Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a consultant to help boost bookings at the school’s event, lodging and conference spaces after experiencing a decline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authored by Bryna Godar, a staff attorney at the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Yet the fact that it exists in the animal kingdom surely suggests that there’s some evolutionary benefit to it, which is the case Robert Enright, a psychologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, makes: particularly among athletes, short-term grudges have an observable motivational effect.
Yes, but not in the same way that perishable items such as eggs, chicken and produce do. When candy goes bad, it’s “almost always a physical (drying out) or chemical (lipid oxidation, flavor change) change and not microbial,” Richard W. Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says.
“There is this kind of global innovation system that I think has been one of the primary reasons why we’ve had this miracle of the cost of solar falling so much,” said Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who wrote a book on the solar supply chain. “To put up walls and to put up barriers, I think we’re going to squander some of that.”
“Election Day is just the end of voting now,” said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “We have many election days and it’s just the final day on which ballots can be cast.”
Dan Tokaji, dean and professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, talked about the voting lawsuits that have been filed across the country ahead of Election Day and the legal battle that’s expected to follow.
In the final meeting of the committee, the Legislative Council Study Committee on the Future of the University of Wisconsin System evaluated recommendations that could see UW-Madison succeed from the UW System and give universities bonding authority.
“The Black Badgers Homecoming Reception went really, really well. We were happy with the nice turnout and with the reception of everyone who was there, and just the ability to collaborate in the way that we did,” Roslynn Pedracine, president of WAA’s Black Affinity Group, tells Madison365.
If all goes well, the new engineering building will help the future of the engineering program and will boost Wisconsin’s economy as a whole. Conversely, the cost of this future improvement is leaving programs underfunded, tuition raised and immediate needs unmet.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau to succeed as new director, promising continued growth, innovation.
UHS provides vital resources for survivors and bystanders alike.
Mike Wagner, a journalism professor and political science expert at UW- Madison, believes celebrity influence can amplify engagement, but it doesn’t necessarily determine voting behavior. “Young voters are particularly receptive to ideas when they’re communicated in a relatable way, and that’s what these celebrities are doing,” said Wagner. “[Students] feel more connected to the election process because they’re supported by people whom they may value the most.”
Prior to attending a private screening last Friday of “A Road At Night’’ — a heartrending documentary on the Howard Moore family tragedy — Greg Gard took a precautionary step.
“I watched it on Thursday night just to prepare myself,’’ he said.
A 2023 UW-Madison survey of Wisconsin dairy farmers found that nearly 40% of farms have at least one foreign employee; other studies have estimated that immigrants account for up to 90% of the labor force in the dairy industry.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison encampment organizers created a “People’s Kitchen” open to everyone, supplied by donations from local restaurants, community members, organizations and supportive UW faculty.
A research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison produced high-resolution images of RSV structure, important for RSV treatment options and vaccine development.
Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History, told The Daily Cardinal the reason for this may lie in direct impact. “With the war in Vietnam, people’s friends were dying,” Lucchini Butcher said. “I think there was a sense of urgency to those protests that made people feel as though they wanted to get involved.”
Approximately 832,300 patients received care in the 2024 fiscal year. Record levels of care this year included: 3,831,200 outpatient appointments, 237,400 emergency department visits, and 85,900 surgeries.
A student worker at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union carried out life-saving measures earlier this month after a person overdosed in one of the lounges. It was an uneventful day at Memorial Union when Ruben Aguilo Schuurs, Building Manager at UW, was flagged down by another worker in the building.
There is no state program that pays student teachers, DPI spokesperson Chris Bucher said. Grant funding may be available through individual colleges or universities, such as the UW-Madison teacher pledge program.
The campaign has invested in youth organizing in Wisconsin, hiring seven full-time campus organizers and a youth organizing coordinator. To broad applause, Ty Schanhofer, a first-time voter and student at the University of Wisconsin, introduced Harris and encouraged students to vote early.
The wound-healing film was invented in 2008 by a team at UW-Madison that included Ankit Agarwal, co-founder and chief scientific officer of the company.
Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that while many Asian and Asian American women see Hello Kitty as a symbol of defiance, the protective, caretaking instinct aroused by “kawaii” isn’t without power.
With increased visibility of women’s volleyball and the success of the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball team, the sport has flourished among girls too, said Franco Marcos. He anticipates Madison’s new professional women’s volleyball team, which launches in January, will continue to bolster the popularity.
While Harris’ team specifically targeted young voters from the University of Wisconsin on Wednesday, Trump’s campaign had a garbage-themed day.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is, once again, considering whether to light and pave a portion of the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path along Lake Mendota.
“These things can often appear to be disconnected,” said Kenneth R. Mayer, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin. “It wouldn’t be at all surprising for people to not make a strong link between gerrymandering and the success of the Cleveland Browns.”
Ebbing price growth might seem novel, but it’s not surprising. Mark Eppli, director of the real estate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, identified three main reasons price hikes are cooling. One is the supply of homes for sale.
For Sadie Rosenthal, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, choosing to vote in the US swing state rather than her native Maryland was a no-brainer.
